by Ruta Sepetys
Lexile: 490
Genre: Historical Fiction
15 year old Lina has a great life: a family who loves her, a chance to attend an art school, and the excitement of looking forward to her first date. But that all changes one night when there is a loud knock at the door. The Soviet police are there and they are given one hour to pack their belongings. They are put in a cattle train car and shipped to Siberia where they all have to fight daily to survive. Lina secretly draws pictures of the people and the events along her journey, hoping that someday they will be used to reunite her family and tell the awful story of what was being done to innocent people.
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